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...form until 1998, despite allowing hot-action het-sex and an alarming amount of rape. For the hottest het-sex in Asia see Korean debutante Jung Ji-woo's Happy End - which won awards at last year's Cannes - with bonking that bests French director Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue for realistic moan-groan quotient and full-body bump and grind. Today, it seems, Korean directors can do just about anything. 1999's Yellow Hair was a sex shebang with orgies and lesbianism that left the viewer with third-degree eyeball burns. That year's Lies...
...ends up caring about Betty, because Writer-Director Jean-Jacques Beineix keeps coiling the story of her last months tighter and tighter until the tension is unbearable. Also, Beatrice Dalle as Betty and Jean-Hugues Anglade as Zorg, her bewitched and befuddled lover, bring mesmerizing intensity to their work...
...Beineix attracted 15 minutes of overattention with his emptily stylish Diva. A year later he stubbed his ego on the contumely of critics when his next film, The Moon in the Gutter, was hooted out of the Cannes Film Festival. Both films were arias of adolescent male obsession with the fatal mystery of womanhood, a theme that Betty Blue investigates more maturely, more dangerously. There is doubtless a feminist parable to be found here, and criticism to be made of its too schematic structure. But the film is full of quirky incident and compassionate humor. What might have repelled ultimately...
...picture. She agreed and -- voila! -- Dalle soon appeared on her first magazine cover, followed last summer by an Elle magazine story using her face and cleavage to herald the return of the well-rounded figure. Her acting debut in Betty Blue, a steamy art flick by Diva Director JeanJacques Beineix, caused a sensation in France. Dalle is not overly impressed with her visage. "My skull is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big, my belly too round and my buttocks too heavy," she has observed. But Dominique Besnehard, the hot casting director who picked...
...While Beineix was dodging or tossing custard pies in the main competition, three other directors-all women, all in their 30s-were earning praise outside it. Boat People by Ann Hui of Hong Kong was withdrawn from competition, reportedly at the insistence of the French government, which is seeking to solidify its relations with the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. The caution is understandable: this film, shot partly in mainland China, is a powerful piece of humanist propaganda about a family trying to escape Da Nang three years after the U.S. forces evacuated Viet...